Theede, financial director Bruce Misamore, managing advisor David Godfrey, and director of Group Menatep Tim Osborne are suspected of embezzlement and money laundering.
Group Menatep was a holding company created by jailed Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky, which previously held an indirect controlling interest in the oil company.
According to investigations, the Yukos top managers conspired to seize the company's foreign assets, and created a special fund to transfer shares in foreign companies controlled by a Yukos subsidiary in the Netherlands. They used a similar scheme to acquire shares in more than 20 foreign subsidiaries and transfer them to a company owned by David Godfrey, prosecutors said.
"As a result, the above-mentioned individuals illegally appropriated assets worth more than $10 billion, in cash, Eurobonds, shares, portfolio investments, in various foreign funds and deposits in trust funds and banks," the Prosecutor General's office said in a statement.
"Using their positions in the company, Theede, Misamore, Osborne and Godfrey embezzled and laundered property controlled by the management, causing serious damage to the owner, Yukos Oil Company," the statement said.
Yukos, once Russia's biggest oil company, was declared bankrupt on August 1 after three years of litigation with tax authorities over the company's tax arrears.
The Yukos Group, whose founder Khodorkovsky is serving an eight-year prison sentence after being convicted for fraud in May 2005, now faces a total of $16.6 billion in claims from creditors, including Rosneft-owned former production unit Yuganskneftegaz ($4.07 bln), the Federal Tax Service ($11.6 bln), Rosneft ($482 mln) and more than 20 other companies.
